The innovative calendar is a tool that the Department of Education allows school districts to use to save a little money. The two main requirements for an innovative calendar are that they save the district a substantial amount of money, and that they not subtract from the number of hours that students receive instruction.
The innovative calendar approved by the Sac and WLVA school boards at the October 19, 2009 joint school board meeting squishes 6 half-day in-services into three, thus saving the Sac School district an estimated $7,200 to $7,650 and the WLVA district $8,800 to $9,350 for a total savings to the schools of between $16,000 and $17,000. These amounts are three days worth of salary that the districts will not be paying non-teachers, (bus drivers, associates, etc.) plus the money spent on fuel for those buses and so forth during the three full in-service days.
The following is a copy of the innovative calendar that Superintendant Barb Kruthoff was directed by the two boards to submit. Just because our school boards approved the innovative calendar there is no guarantee that the Department of Education will approve it. Last year the boards submitted a calendar that saved the two districts over $15,000 and the Department of Education rejected it.
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